[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 246 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                  House Calendar No. 78

103d CONGRESS

  1st Session

                              H. RES. 246

                          [Report No. 103-223]

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                               RESOLUTION

    Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401) to 
 authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
             for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.

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                             August 6, 1993

        Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed





                                                  House Calendar No. 78
103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 246

                          [Report No. 103-223]

    Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401) to 
 authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
             for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1993

    Mr. Frost, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following 
resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401) to 
 authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
             for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes.

    Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this resolution 
the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 1(b) of rule XXIII, declare the 
House resolved into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
the Union for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 2401) to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1994 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths 
for fiscal year 1994, and for other purposes. After further general 
debate, which shall be confined to the bill and the amendments made in 
order by this resolution and shall not exceed one hour equally divided 
and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Armed Services, the bill shall be considered for amendment 
under the five-minute rule. It shall be in order to consider as an 
original bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule 
the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the 
Committee on Armed Services now printed in the bill. The committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be considered as read. 
All points of order against the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute are waived. No amendment to the committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute shall be in order except those printed in the 
report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution or 
specified by a subsequent order of the House. Except as specified in 
section 2 of this resolution, the amendments printed in the report 
shall be considered in the order printed. Unless otherwise specified in 
the report, each amendment may be offered only by the named proponent 
or a designee, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the 
time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall 
not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or 
in the Committee of the Whole. All points of order against amendments 
printed in the report are waived.
    Sec. 2. The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may postpone 
until a time during further consideration in the Committee of the Whole 
a request for a recorded vote on any amendment made in order by this 
resolution. The chairman of the Committee of the Whole may reduce to 
not less than five minutes the time for voting by electronic device on 
any postponed question that immediately follows another vote by 
electronic device without intervening business: Provided, That the time 
for voting by electronic device on the first in any series of questions 
shall be not less than fifteen minutes. The chairman of the Committee 
of the Whole may recognize for consideration of amendments printed 
within a numbered part of the report of the Committee on Rules (other 
than part 1) out of the order in which they are printed, but not sooner 
than one hour after the chairman of the Committee on Armed Services or 
a designee announces from the floor a request to that effect.
    Sec. 3. (a) After designation of the committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute, an additional period of general debate shall be 
confined to funding levels for ballistic missile defense and shall not 
exceed forty minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services. It shall 
then be in order to consider the amendments printed in part 1 of the 
report of the Committee on Rules. If more than one of the amendments 
printed in part 1 of the report is adopted, only the last to be adopted 
shall be considered as finally adopted and reported to the House.
    (b) After disposition of or postponement of further proceedings on 
the amendments printed in part 1 of the report, an additional period of 
general debate shall be confined to the Trident II (D-5) missile and 
shall not exceed thirty minutes equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed 
Services. It shall then be in order to consider the amendments printed 
in part 2 of the report.
    (c) After disposition of or postponement of further proceedings on 
the amendments printed in part 2 of the report, an additional period of 
general debate shall be confined to burdensharing and shall not exceed 
twenty minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services. It shall 
then be in order to consider the amendments printed in part 3 of the 
report.
    (d) After disposition of or postponement of further proceedings on 
the amendments printed in part 3 of the report, an additional period of 
general debate shall be confined to economic conversion and shall not 
exceed thirty minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services. It 
shall then be in order to consider the amendments printed in part 4 of 
the report.
    Sec. 4. After disposition of the amendments printed in part 4 of 
the report of the Committee on Rules and any other amendment on which 
further proceedings were earlier postponed, the Committee shall rise 
without motion. No further consideration of the bill shall be in order 
except pursuant to a subsequent order of the House.